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The play consists of two acts, each of two scenes and is set entirely in the living room of Rose Pemberton and her two elderly aunts who live with the aunts' brother James, a disabled Roman Catholic priest. The aunts have a long-running fear of death in the house, with any bedroom being locked away from further use following a death of its ...
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On the night of Dec. 31, 1862, enslaved and free African Americans gathered to watch and wait for news that the previously announced Emancipation Proclamation would, in fact, become the law of the ...
Feeble, flickering films of travel scenes were the usual fare." The theater remained open for two years, making it the first permanent movie theater in the world. November 7, 1897 ad for the Vitascope Theater in Buffalo, New York, one of the first theaters created especially to show motion pictures. In its first year there were 200,000 ...
The Biograph Theater on Lincoln Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, was originally a movie theater but now presents live productions. It gained early notoriety as the location where bank robber John Dillinger was leaving when he was shot down by FBI agents, after he watched a gangster movie there on July 22, 1934.
Postcard of the Salt Lake Theatre in 1920 The interior of the Salt Lake Theatre The exterior of the Pioneer Memorial Museum in Salt Lake City—a full-scale reproduction of the original Salt Lake Theatre. The Salt Lake Theatre was a 1,500 seat [1] pioneer theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah that was built in 1862. [2] It was located at 75 East 100 ...
In a scene reminiscent of the 1815 Duchess of Richmond's Ball prior to the Battle of Waterloo, Balfour House played host to a grand Christmas Ball on the night of December 24, 1862. [ 1 ] [ b ] The guests included many Confederate Army officers and their ladies.
The Oscar winner is being re-released in theaters to mark its 10th anniversary. Even superfans of the movie Whiplash might not have noticed one of the 2014 production's onscreen tricks. "The thing ...